Fareham College is a

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situated on a campus on the western side of the town of

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History

Fareham College was formed in 1984 as a merger between an earlier

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(Fareham Technical College) on the same site and the

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at the historic Price's School, a boys'

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on ''Park Lane'', (before the latter's site was sold to developers), and became the sole state provider of post-16 education in Fareham (a

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). Price's School became a sixth form college in 1976.Former school
/ref> Fareham Grammar School for Girls was on ''Birdwood Grove'', and became Cams Hill School.

Principals

* Peter Watkins, Principal from 1980-74 of Price’s Sixth Form College (Head from 1974-9 of

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and from 1969-74 of

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) * Carl Groves (2002-2011) * Nigel Duncan (2012– ??) * Andrew Kaye ( ??-

Academic performance

The latest Ofsted report (2017) rated Fareham College as an 'Outstanding' college.

Alumni

Price's School

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, who founded

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Roger Dimmock Rear Admiral Roger Charles Dimmock, (27 May 1935 – 6 May 2014) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Naval Secretary from 1985 to 1987. Naval career Educated at Price's School, Dimmock joined the Royal Navy in 1953 and specialised in naval ...

, commanded

HMS Hermes Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Hermes'', after Hermes, the messenger god of Greek mythology, while another was planned: * was a 12-gun brig-sloop, originally the Dutch ''Mercurius'', that captured in 1796. ''Hermes'' foundered ...

from 1982-3, and

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from 1980-2 *

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* Peter Long, businessperson

References

External links

College website

Former Price's School

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{{Authority control Fareham Further education colleges in Hampshire Educational institutions established in 1984 1984 establishments in England